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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Investment banking forms part of the financial services industry involved in the underwriting, distribution, and trading of securities. What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research.

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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

Welcome back to the last in our series on breaking down case interview frameworks. Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. – Financial Acquirer, like a PE firm. Missed out on Parts 1-3?

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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How to Get Client Testimonials

The Fearless Marketer

This is a good testimonial: “When I came to James, the cash flow in my business was in chaos and my profitability was down despite increasing my business volume in the past year. James helped me hands-on with my business finances and taught me what I needed to do each month to stay on track. The interviews don’t need to be long.

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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part II: Mergers and Acquisitions Framework)

Tom Spencer

The reason that this framework is worth introducing is due to the increasing frequency of M&A cases confronting candidates in the case interview. Needless to say, M&A deals are notoriously complicated financial activities, which makes candidates panic when they are prompted with an M&A case. Figure 1, M&A Framework.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

There are many different types of due diligence such as legal, accounting, financial, and commercial due diligence amongst many others. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.